J. W. Swank , author of The Dirty Little Secrets About "Cleaned" Coins: A Common Sense Handbook on Coin Cleaning

He spent two years in the USNR and four years in the USN. He retired after thirty years with Xerox Corporation. He is a graduate of De Vry Institute of Technology, Chicago and Utility Engineering Institute, Chicago. He has a wife of forty-five years and two grown daughters. He has been collecting coins for over forty years. He is a member of the ANA and a life member of the PNS (Pensacola Numismatic Society). He has taken ANA courses in grading uncirculated and circulated coin, Minting processes and Mint errors and varieties. He collects Morgan dollars, Walkers halves, Franklin halves, Indian Head pennies, Buffalo nickels, and Proof quarters and nickels. He does coin collection appraisals on the side.

John William Swank, author of The Perfect Year: A story of Love Fulfilled

John has a wife of forty-five years, two grown daughters and a grandson. It was in the Methodist church, as a young boy, that he first learned that Jesus loved him and he accepted the Lord as his Savior when he was a teenager.  He spent four years in the Navy where he learned how important it was to be in God's word and to lean on Him for guidance.  He married his wife Donna while in the Navy.  After, getting out of the Navy he returned to his hometown and attended a local Methodist Church. He served his church in Illinois as a Sunday school teacher and a Methodist Lay Speaker. After 7- years living in his hometown, he and his family moved to Florida where they have lived for the last 35 years. The Lord led them to a Southern Baptist church.  As a Baptist he was an ordained deacon. He also served as a Sunday school and training union teacher, a department director, a Sunday school director, and the church's outreach director.  He served for several years in a local association as their Interfaith Director. Since 1979 after the Jones Town tragedy inspired him, he stared studying and lecturing in churches on groups commonly called "Cults".  He wrote 300-page study on the subject called "Wolves in Sheep's Clothing" and in 1984 wrote "All Things New!" (A course for new believers), that he plans to release an updated version in the future.

             Recently John and Donna returned to the Methodist Church by joining a local church.  He feels that God has given them both a spiritual journey that has taught them many lessons as they grew in their faith.  He retired after thirty years with Xerox Corporation and has decided to give the next thirty years to the Lord's work. Writing has been a life long love and now he has the time devote to it.  "The Perfect Year" is just the start.

            Look for the sequel soon, "The Perfect View".